fo. 2. 17. Sr Edwarde Hobye.
       Argent 3 spindles gules.
         For these arms see Misc. Gen. et Her. I, 141; the
         exemplification of 1561 gives this coat of "clewes or
         bottomes," as adopted by Hoby, on marrying the heiress of
         Badland, co. Radnor, but the explanation seems open to
         question. Sir Edward's arms are given as such, impaling
         Cooke of Essex, differenced with a crescent. he was of
         Bisham, Berks., and of Sheppey; Constable of Queenborough
         Castle, 1582; granted Shurland in Eastchurch 1593 on lease
         for life by Elizabeth; Knight of the Shire, 1593; Custos
         Rotulorum of Kent, 1596; died at Queenborough, 1616
         (Hasted, folio, II, p. 649); an intimate of the Sidneys, as the
         following extracts from the DeLisle and Dudley papers show:
         "I have given Terry charge to Serve Sir Edward Hobbye with
         a very good buck this season," 1607; "Sir Edward Hoby
          prayseth your apricots but I fear I shall see none of them,"
         Viscount Lisle to his wife 1608; Viscount Lisle wrote from
         Shurland in 1610. He was "dubbed at Somerset Place in
         London on Tuesday the 22 of May, anno 1582, the day after
         his marriage with the Baron of Hunston's daught'r."
         (Metcalfe's Knights, p. 134.)
         To him Camden dedicated his Hibernia. He also indulged in
          religious controversy, as is evidenced by the following title
          page of a quarto, published by Nathaniel Butter at the Signe
         of the Pied Bull, 1615. A CURRY-COMBE FOR A
          COXE-COMBE, or Purgtories Knell; in Answer of a lewd
          Libell foricated by Iabal Rachil against Sir Edw. Hobies
          COUNTER-SNARLE, entituled Purgatories triumph over
          Hell, digested in forme of a Dialogue by NICK, groom of the
          HOBIE-stable Reginoburgi. [i.e. Queenborough.]
  

18. Sr Ralphe Bouser.
        Argent a cross engrailed gules between 4 bougets sable, a
          border or and gules, and on each gules a bezant.
          Sir Rauf Bourchier of Beningborough, co. Yorks, son of
          John (or James) Bourchier, the base son of Lord Berners of
          Froissart fame. He married (1) Eliz. d. of Francis Hall of
          Grantham, co. Lincs., by whom only he had issue; (2)
          Christian, d. of Bernard Shakerly of London; (3) Ann, d. of
          George Harvey of Norfolk, relict of Francis Cooke (MS.
          history of Berners family, 1616, penes the writer); his
          marriage license, 29 Nov., 1577, Ralph Bourchier esq. and
          Christian Harding, widow of St. Bennett Gracechurch, to
          marry there (Chester, p. 160). Lambarde lists him as J. P. in
          Leigh by Blackheath, 1596, and Lee parish register of that
          year records the marriage of his d., Katherine to Sir Richard
          Mauleverer (Drake, p. 224); Knighted at Whitehall, 6 March,
         1583.
 19. Sr Moyle Finch.
        Argent a chevron between 3 griffins passant sable.
         Of Eastwell, married 4 Nov., 1572, Eliz., d. and heir of Sir
         Thomas Heneage; Knight of the Shire, 1593; baronet, 1611;
         died, 1614; Knighted at Greenwich, 7 May, 1584.
  20. Sr Robert Sydney.
          Or a pheon azure.
         Afterwards Earl of Leicester; Knighted by his uncle Robert
         Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in Holland, 1586.